Tracks - page 16

There's something hypnotic in the repeated lyric ("Why reduce yourself like that?") and as the bass walks you through to the safe haven of the outro, all is calm, all is well.

Sometimes you just gotta wind down with some beautiful vocals, smooth flowing synths and piano and heavenly harmonies. And when those times come, Folly Rae's latest single Someone I Don't Know is just the ticket....

As Monte Carlo unfurls its beautiful wings I can see a Top of The Pops studio, its angular set and grid contrasting with the smooth new wave dance stylings of the music. Colored suits may...

'Still Chasing Nothing has energy and hooks to spare, and is more than capable of skipping nimbly through the rubble of the old genre divisions.'

The air weighs heavy with Violence, but Elin Berlin's voice is so beautiful, so Scandi-pure, and Johan Angergard's production throws in layer upon layer of gorgeousness to wrap around you like so many 20-tog duvets...

Lazy Salon produce atmospheric instrumentals of all stripes. Halo Hand is a seven-minute psych-out, noise-pop and drone affair, best enjoyed staring up at the sky

'Count on Me is the second single from Falmouth-based Lost Dawn: a powerful concoction of raw garage-rock infused with a touch of glam.'

The week's happiest opening chord sequence (now there's a Grammy category waiting to happen) belongs unquestionably to Summer Heart's Beat of your Heart.

The thundering drums that burst in after Wolf's synthtro might surprise at first, but when it all kicks together and Abrahamson is into the chorus mantra of "you're a wolf, I can't read you" it's...

Turning Tides is a cool confection of shifting electronic beats and instrumentation and Drew York's delicate falsetto, which floats effortlessly through the song's phalanx of sounds.

Simple but oh so very effective, Wonderlust hits hard from the first fuzzy notes and doesn't let up

Parrot Dream's new video for Come Home works well with the song's isolated / isolating feel and dream-pop sound, but of the whole composition it's a brain-meltingly wonderful chorus that wins the day.

Remember The Highs forges a character of its own, from its confident bass-less opening and simple hook, through its repeated lyrical preoccupations and the guitar lines that punctuate them. It's got the feel of something...

Open Wide is another in Hackman's fast growing collection of moody downers, the oppression of the guitar riffs matched by Hackman's siren calls.

All the over-excitement on hearing of a new East India Youth album in 2015 turned to becalmed awe on first hearing the quiet magnificence of CAROUSEL.

The Other Side takes audio clips from NASA mission control during the Apollo 8 mission and lays them over a pulsating electronic backing, to create moments that are somehow not only evocative of an era...

Two minutes of Fake Spit is all you'll need to be convinced you need more spiky punk / garage from the Sheffield foursome.

Having released their debut EP Faraday Wave in November 2013, Australian indie-rock band We Do This will be releasing its follow-up in April 2015.

The wildly energetic Ocean of Tears is from the French singer's intriguingly titled **My Dreams Dictate My Reality**, due for release on March 3rd on Babycat Records.

Mongolian Hunters is taken from 17th Century Japanese Aviary, the debut album from Inti Rowland. The album, on which Rowland is accompanied by a string quartet, brass and percussion, was recorded in six days in...